Children and infants, mortality of, 1; _see_ Mortality. ---- diseases of, their signs, 5; _see_ Diseases of Children. ---- management, 12 ---- spoiled, 13 ---- sick, importance of truth with them, 13 ---- keeping happy, 16 Chloroform in convulsions, 92 Chronic constitutional diseases, 173 Cold to the head, how to apply, 22 Colic, characters of, 158 Congestion of the brain, 95 ---- fatal termination of, 96 ---- chronic water on brain from, 97 ---- treatment of, 97 Constitutional diseases, 173 Consumption, how distinguished from non-expansion of lungs, 38 ---- its symptoms when cause of infantile atrophy, 61 ---- its nature, 174 ---- recovery from, 176 ---- causes of, 176 ---- symptoms, 177 ---- dependent on disease of glands of lungs, 177 ---- in infancy, 178 ---- galloping, 178 ---- of the bowels, 179 Convulsions, as sign of brain disorder, 88 ---- less serious than in grown person, 89 ---- signs of their approach, 93 ---- causes of, various, 90 ---- description of a fit of, 94 ---- treatment of, 91 ---- now and then without apparent cause, 111 Cough, from disease of glands of lungs, 177 Cow's milk, excess of curd in, 51 ---- ---- easily deteriorated, 52 Cow-pox, its nature, 198 Croup, its nature, 133 ---- its two kinds, 134 ---- catarrhal, 134 ---- distinction from diphtheria, 135 ---- treatment of, 135 ---- spasmodic, 107. _See_ Spasmodic Croup. Cry in illness, various meanings of, 5 ---- when lungs are imperfectly expanded, 36 Diabetes, 169 Diarrh[oe]a in childhood, 154 ---- simple, 156 ---- inflammatory, 157 Digestion, how performed, 151 Digestive organs, peculiarities of, in infancy, 46 Diphtheria, 136 ---- its gradual progress, 136 ---- caution not to overlook it, 137. ---- various dangers of, 138 ---- management of, 139 ---- opening windpipe in, 140 ---- paralysis after, 141 Diseases of infants and children, their signs, 5 ---- management, 12 Doctor, proper relation of parents to, 28 Dream images vivid in childhood, 215 Dyspepsia of weakly children, 153 Earache, symptoms of, 103 ---- treatment of, 105 ---- inflammation of brain from disease of ear, 102 Eczema, 79 ---- its symptoms and course, 79 ---- treatment, 81 ---- alleged dangers of curing, 84 Epilepsy, its two forms, 112 ---- prospects of recovery from, 113 ---- moral perversion, from, 114 ---- treatment of, 116 ---- moral management of, 117 Exhaustion a cause of brain disorder, 106 Farinaceous food, why unsuitable, 46 ---- ---- results of its excess, 47 ---- ---- best forms of, 60 Feeding-bottle, best form of, 55 Feigned illness, 221 Fingers, scrofulous disease of bones of, 183 Food, quantity required by an infant, 54 ---- best mode of giving, 54 Galvanism, in cases of paralysis, 123 German measles, 204 Glandular enlargement in infantile consumption, 61 ---- swellings from scrofula, 183 Gravel, 170